June 12 , 2009 Business Alliance Grubstake
Breakfast Presenters
HeMemics Biotechnologies, Inc.
HeMemics is a development and manufacturing company that is privately held. The company has proprietary technologies to dehydrate perishable biologics (proteins, cells, tissues, etc.) and has developed processes to extend shelf life while delivering cells in dried format for medical and non-medical applications. HeMemics is seeking $750,000 Convertible Debenture for facilities expansion, FDA approval, to support staff expansion, and for business development and marketing.
Isaac Gadsden, VP Mkt and Bus Dev, ilgadsden@hememics.com 301 560 0415
NextGen, Inc.
Detection systems, gates and wands, have been counter terrorism’s most ubiquitous tools for many decades. A gradual phase out of these tools is taking place in favor of new technologies that will be able to detect a larger spectrum of threats faster, more accurately, and for less money. At the same time, deaths by IED’s and security at airports have become a major security concerns. These threats will continue to grow and countering them has become the focus of much effort. Up until now, there has not been a device that detects explosives FROM A SAFE DISTANCE.
In December of 2008, filed patent applications for an Integrated Stand off Detection System (ISOD) for the detection of explosives and narcotics. This is a clean slate technology. The source of iMars (Integrated Multi Application Radiation System) is the underpinning technology used in this invention. iMars generates Millimeter-wave, THz radiation, and Fast Neutrons.
The source will send out a beam of Terahertz or Microwave rays for the detection and identification of suspect target . The detector measures the rays reflected off the target and checks them against a database of spectroscopic signatures resulting in the identification of the target.
Backpack versions detect explosives from distances of up to 50 meters. Vehicle portable devices can have a range of 500 meters.
Applications include airport security, IED detection, building and border security, and law enforcement, just name a few.
In order to develop the production version of this device, NextGen is seeking about $5,000,000 dollars in funding. The funds will be used for miniaturizing, software development, integration, marketing, and sales.
About NextGen:
Established in 1997
A certified 8(a) SDB firm
Focus areas: Communications, information technology, Detection Systems
Clients: US Army, US State Department, NEC, and Sprint
Ross Shariati, President, rs@picknextgen.com 703-652-8447
Referred by:: Business Alliance
Parabon NanoLabs, Inc.
Parabon NanoLabs, Inc., (PNL) develops novel therapeutics, bioweapons sensors, DNA biometrics, and other nano-enabled products made possible by its proprietary technology for engineering the self-assembly of designer macromolecules using synthetic DNA. Strands of DNA are programmed with sequences that self-assemble into arbitrarily shaped molecular breadboards that can be richly functionalized and mass-produced – feats not achievable with any other nanotechnologies.
The computational complexity of determining effective DNA design sequences has stymied its widespread use for nano-assembly. Over the past four years, PNL has addressed this critical need by advancing not only their supercomputing tool, but also the nano-fabrication methods required for rapid engineering of nano-enabled solutions, giving the Company a strong competitive advantage in a vast market. PNL’s technology is being validated through SBIR wins and strategic pharmaceutical and system integrator alliances. PNL seeks $2,000,000 for product development, marketing and sales.
Steve Armentrout, Founder and President, sarmentrout@parabon.com 703-689-9689 x207
Referred by:: Paula Armentrout
TRX Systems
TRX Systems makes personal pin-point location devices that work anywhere, even when GPS is unavailable. The technology uses ad-hoc sensor networks to provide tracking, monitoring and data communications abilities required for applications including real-time first responder location and blue force tracking. The system is completely mobile and does not require any pre-installed infrastructure on any building in order to accurately locate personnel. Our superior technology, experienced management team and prestigious customer advisory board give us a significant advantage in the first responder market, which will be our initial focus. We have completed successful demonstrations within the fire services community, anxious to see our product in the market. TRX is seeking $1,500,000. With funds raised from equity investment we will hire additional staff including product management, engineering, sales, customer service and management. We will also formalize partnership arrangements with distributors and invest in fire trade shows for mass marketing.
Karina Drees, CFO, karina@trxsystems.com 301-313-0053
Referred by: Innovectra
June 12, 2009 Grubstake Breakfast Spotlight Tables
Endtone’s
Estimated at just over $3 billion USD, the disconnect tone market makes Endtone an excellent investment opportunity and provides the company and its investors with many low risk, high return exit alternatives.
What is a disconnect tone? Endtone’s patent pending disconnect tone product transforms the end of wireless calls into multimedia, entertaining and public events. Similar in many ways to ringtones (a $7 billion USD market in 2008), disconnect tones are heard and seen when wireless users end calls or when calls are accidentally dropped.
Our short demonstration video is an excellent way to see and hear all of the disconnect tone benefits: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YSeHqCUHw8
Endtone is aggressively adding new revenue streams. Already available in India, pending disconnect tone launches include Russia, Nokia’s OVI Store, and BlackBerry’s App World.
Endtone seeks $300,000. These new funds will drive new version development (Apple’s iPhone, Palm’s webOS Mobile, etc.) and deliver new revenue opportunities.
Brock Muir, President, brock. muir@endtone.com 202 498 9222
SCIT Labs
SCIT Labs is developing and commercializing threat independent cyber security solutions for the government and commercial markets. Today’s business imperatives require connections to the internet. This interconnectivity makes today’s businesses, missions and individuals vulnerable to Cyber attacks. Current Cyber Security threats are becoming more complex and pervasive. 285 million records were compromised in 2008 (Verizon). Over 500,000 web sites were successfully compromised in 2008 (Breach Security); Malicious intrusions were up 40% in 2008 (U.S. CERT). Currently, Symantec generates over ten thousand threat signatures a day, compared to 1000 per week just a few years ago. Obviously, threat specific, signature and a priori information based approaches do not eliminate intrusions. Self Cleansing Intrusion Tolerance (SCIT) technology provides an inexpensive, threat independent solution to contain losses for server based IT functions. SCIT is seeking $1.5 to $2.0 M to go towards: product development (30%), Sales engineering and support (30%), and marketing/sales/business development/licensing (40%).
Arun Sood, CEO, asood@scitlabs.com 703-347-4494
Referred by:: Lloyd Griffiths
March 19, 2009 Business Alliance Grubstake
Breakfast Presenters
ChicksWithKidz
ChicksWithKidz (CWK) developed a patent pending electronic device to aid in monitoring medications, diet, sleep patterns and other daily routines. The product caters to 4 distinct market segments: Infant care, older child/adult/geriatric care, pet care and data mining. The initial product launch focuses on the infant care market, specifically targeting institutions where trials are scheduled to begin. Features of note, include alarms to notify parents and caregivers when it is time to medicate, with the ability to program the names and dose times for up to twelve medications. Additionally, the device tracks feedings by breast or bottle as well as nap schedules and can be uploaded to the PC to store data, monitor trends and share information with pediatrician. The device stores up to 5 days of data allowing working parents with the press of a button, to scroll through the information upon returning home from work or a night away. The bizzyBee also has a complete line of accessories. CWK is seeking $1 million for continued marketing and manufacturing.
Kirsten Knull: CEO, kirsten@chickswithkidz.com 757-880-1118
Eye Controls, LLC
Government and the healthcare industry will spend $150-$250 Billion over the next four years to implement electronic medical records nationwide. These systems cannot operate effectively without associated identification systems that link patients to the correct record. Also, positive ID is needed for staff for access to patient records and e-prescribing functions. There is a $5 Billion market for these medical identification systems. Eye Controls designs and manufactures the patent-pending SafeMatch® iris identification system. The Iris, the colored ring in the eye, is more unique than a fingerprint and U.S. government studies confirm that iris ID is the most accurate biometric technology. Our products provide rapid log-in and access for staff, and prevent medical and recordkeeping errors by positively matching patients to their electronic medical records, medications, and procedures. The companys products deliver safe, fast, cost-effective, accurate ID for a wide range of medical and other applications. Eye Controls is seeking $250,000 equity, debt, or blended funding in the first quarter. The company is seeking
$2,000,000 equity in the second quarter. The proceeds will support manufacturing operations, including tooling costs and establishing inventory to fill current orders.
Evan Smith: CEO, esmith@eye-controls.com 703-615-3555
Mingle360
Mingle 360 is a social connectivity platform that makes it easier for consumers to safely connect with each other, with vendors and with product of interests, (the fundamental concept of tagging.) Our patent-pending technology makes it easy to create physical world connections with a single click and the result is a great leap forward in extending the Internet into life's day to day activities. The value to the user is convenience, novelty, and enhanced social connectivity and for the sponsor building trust relationships with prospects in a social media environment. Offered as a service to event organizers, the Mingle360 solution greatly enhances attendee networking at the event, surpassing business cards with up to date contact information and even facial recognition. It creates 'buzz' and excitement at the event and helps differentiate the organization from the competition. Event planners can also implement the lead retrieval technology using the countertop unit called the MingleStation. All in all, Mingle360 is the easiest way to turns real-world conversations into online connections and to produce dramatically more valuable networking events. Mingle 360 is seeking $2M equity or debt. The funds will be used for sales and marketing infrastructure, key hires in tradeshow/convention marketplace, completion of product development, logistics preparation for rapid growth, international filings for core patents already filed in the U.S., and to create additional IP (patents, trade secrets, publications, etc.) directed toward leverage in key partnerships and potential M&A opportunities.
Dan Coffing:CEO, dcoffing@mingle360.com 703-425-0402 x510
Pixelligent Technologies, LLC
Pixelligent Technologies, LLC is a nanotechnology company. Pixelligents leading innovation is centered around lithographic applications used in integrated circuit design. Lithography has been the main driver behind Moores Law. Pixelligents principal nanotechnology product is a liquid-based lithographic solution, which contains dispersed nanocrystals that act to focus light. This improves the resolution which enables more transistors to be printed on each chip. This solution will be used in the production of semiconductors to increase the processing capacity of computer chips. Pixelligent is seeking $700,000 equity. $900K has been raised in this round to date.
The funds will go to product development, working capital,
and to retire debt.
Craig Bandes:CEO, cbandes@pixelligent.com 301-405-9284
SitScape
SitScape empowers business users to "quickly access important information matters to them at any situational moment - at a glance". SitScape's enterprise software product enables business users to assemble situational business dashboards in minutes through on-demand componentization and user interface virtualization of the disparate enterprise Web applications and external Web sites. This can all be done in the style of self-service in minutes with zero programming. SitScape's product can deliver business value to the end-users 100x faster comparing to traditional approaches, and requires zero change to any existing IT infrastructure. It ensures that visible business value is quickly delivered to end users in minutes. It can significantly speed-up time-to-market, reduce IT dependency, save cost, and enhance business agility and decision making. Sitscape is seeking $1,500,000 equity. The funds will go to marketing and sales.
Kevin Yin: CEO, kyin@sitscape.com 571-432-8130
March 19, 2009 Grubstake Breakfast Spotlight Tables
Dalos BioPharma
Dalos is a products-based company specializing in bacterial and viral infections of the skin. Dalos products are naturally-occurring botanical products, derived from a proprietary single source. Dalos has initially targeted the following therapeutic areas in skin disease: 1) MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus) and other Staphylococcus-related skin infections; and 2) Molluscum contagiosum and other viral diseases of the skin. The lack of suitable therapies in these disease states lend themselves to rapid growth in the use of the products, both in the United States and internationally. We are also targeting 3) Eczema, Atopic Dermatitis, and other inflammatory skin diseases (human and veterinary applications);and 4) Consumer Products (liquid hand soap, body wash, shampoo, disinfectants). We are aware of activity in even more areas, but will not move into those areas until suitably capitalized. The initial indications chosen by Dalos, MRSA and Molluscum, represent large, open and profitable markets for these products. Dalos BioPharma is seeking up to $2M in traunches in the form of debt, equity or a combination. The funds will go to marketing/sales, product formulation and manufacture, intellectual property expansion, and marketing trials.
Gary Pekoe : CEO, gpekoe@dalosbio.com 757-631-2114
Turiss, LLC
Turiss provides information security services and software that prevents cyberfraud. Turiss provides cutting edge cyber-intelligence reports and alerts to financial institution clients based on intelligence generated by its civil intelligence network. It likewise provides security analysis of IT infrastructure, incident response services for data breaches, and high-end computer forensic consulting to clients, often in support of litigation. Finally, Turiss has used its expertise and experience to develop software applications to combat the latest generations of cyber-fraud attacks. The current investment opportunity stems from the development of a patent-pending software product developed to counter a new and widespread threat to online banking and commerce. Turiss is seeking 1 million dollars for product development, distribution, and marketing.
Richard Kelsey: CEO, rich.kelsey@turiss.com 703-880-4279
Viscape Ltd.
Viscape is an industry disruptor because it offers a free listing and lead-generation service for vacation property businesses on a social networking platform. Businesses can build their online presence on Viscape, advertise their services, and target consumers using powerful social networking and business tools. Viscape creates a fun, free, and easy consumer experience, with fast property search and travel planning, to drive traffic to businesses. Viscape is seeking $1,000,000. The funds will be allocated as follows: Gross Proceeds $1,000,000 Less Expenses Related to this Offering (estimated) $75,000 Use of Net Proceeds Recruit, hire and compensate Chief Operating Officer and additional staff $525,000; Marketing, SEO & PR, including public relations firm and staff to develop content $50,000; Technology, legal & accounting $225,000; Administrative $25,000; Travel & Entertainment $25,000; Contingencies $75,000. Total Use of Proceeds $1,000,000.
Dan Engfer: CEO, dan@viscape.com 703-553-1180
October 16, 2008 Business Alliance
Breakfast Grubstake Presenters
DubMeNow
DubMeNow eliminates the need to swap, save, enter or update any more business card data. Dub allows anyone with a smart phone to instantly text or email all their contact information to another smart phone. The contact data loads directly to the users mobile address book and updates automatically whenever a contact changes their information.
Additionally, users can invite contacts to connect via social networking sites such as linkedIn, ‘tag’ or note information about the contact and see when and where they met.
Dub is in private beta now with an open beta release scheduled for mid October and public launch in mid-November. The company currently is working with RIM, Microsoft, Google and LinkedIn on the technology.
DubMeNow has raised $1.1 million in angel funding and is seeking an additional $650K for ongoing development and product launch.
Contact:
Manoj Ramnani, Founder & CEO
703-725-4674 | ramnani@dubmenow.com www.dubmenow.com
Griffin Enterprises dba MoneyU®
MoneyU® offers a technological solution to a broad social problem, and leverages a convergence of trends in e-learning, the national economy, policymaking, and web technology. This product was built on the “Build One-Sell Many” model that facilitates high returns on investment through low cost operations; accordingly Therefore, product sales with very high gross margins are anticipated.
The national crisis of financial illiteracy has been growing exponentially the last 10 years, and has had legislators, educators, bureaucrats, and the financial industry scrambling to provide low cost, scalable, effective financial training. Several recent federal initiatives allocate significant funding toward the problem, and more States every year are revising their curricula to include Personal Finance. Relevant segments of the e-learning market for this product include not only Schools, but also Finance, Government (Federal, States, municipalities), Employers, Publishers, Nonprofits, Parents, and Individuals.
MoneyU® is a comprehensive, game-based course in personal finance, with breakthrough instruction that
• teaches not just financial knowledge but skills practice, using simulations and widgets;
• treats a serious topic in an entertaining and engaging way, so learning is vivid and memorable;
• covers an enormous curriculum faster and more clearly than traditional lecture;
• exposes the tricks and traps used by the financial industry;
• proves its effectiveness with objective, replicable, empirical measures; and
• reaches learners cheaply, and anytime/anyplace via the web.
The completed product debuted in February 2008, and has already has been purchased by colleges, high schools, virtual high schools, and nonprofits. Individuals can buy MoneyU at www.moneyu.com. MoneyU’s design features afford it several unique and sustainable market advantages; chiefly: engaging game-based content, accumulative efficacy data, modular design which accommodates evolving content and customization for key partners, scalable and cost-effective delivery, standards-based curriculum, unvarnished and unbiased presentation, and extremely consistent learning outcomes.
Griffin Enterprises, LLC (GELLC) seeks $2 million in capital financing to execute the marketing plan, continue with product enhancements and complete the sales cycle with prospective buyers of MoneyU.
Contact:
Kathy Griffin, CEO
240-314-7180 | KathyGriffin@MoneyU.com
www.moneyu.com
mySBX
It is very rare that a company can introduce something so transformative as to change the way businesses and independents work forever. Introducing the first Resource and Opportunity Exchanges (matching market supply and demands), and leveraging the latest Web 2.0 technologies, mySBX is enabling business owners by helping them to pursue revenue opportunities, exchange assets and resources, collaborate on projects, and accelerate decisions regarding best in class support services.
mySBX is seeking $3M to accelerate sales, marketing and customer acquisition.
Contact:
Jeff White, President
703-896-4003 | jwhite@mysbx.com
www.mysbx.com
Near Infinity Corporation
Near Infinity’s intelliPrints is an auditing solution with business intelligence tools for security managers, business analysts, developers and IT system administrators. It increases business process efficiency while also decreasing an organization’s risk from failed audits and destructive system activity. Unlike time consuming and costly manual log file analysis and limited network security tools, intelliPrints is an early warning system for threats from within your organization. It has been deployed within one of the most influential organizations in the US Intelligence Community, making it a highly trusted and secure solution.
Near Infinity is a Reston, Virginia-based software development firm with a reputation for delivering great software, fast. Founded in 2002, we focus on building secure, enterprise-wide web applications for business process automation, data mining and collaboration. Near Infinity has grown steadily each year and now employs nearly 50 highly skilled developers and engineers. Our products and services are used primarily by the US Intelligence Community.
Contact:
Chris D’Agostino, Founder & CEO
703-904-7505 | chris.dagostino@nearinfinity.com
www.nearinfinity.com
June 12 , 2008 Business Alliance Grubstake
Breakfast Presenters
Five Tech Companies Pitch Investors at Grubstake Breakfast
- Tech Journal South
Eye Q Development utilizes an array of patent pending technology and proprietary software platforms to inlay RFID into tickets, ID cards, and water resistant wrist bands to allow tracking of assets and personnel for security and marketing data analysis. Eye Q provides, a comprehensive solution, supported by RFID tags, software, and hosting. The firm's sales strategy allows for several additional implementations to be introduced over time at a very low cost which makes for a scalable product model allowing for dynamic growth through the cross pollenization of products and services, providing several additional revenue streams. With paying clients, pending contracts, and letters of intent from several potential clients, the time is now to partner with Eye Q Development as an investor.
Eye Q Development is seeking $2M series "A" investment that will be used for sales/ marketing, product completion of additional software, and beta and close of current pipeline.
Contact:
Cliff Kreig, President & Founder
703-766-5791 | ck@eyeqdevelopment.com
www.eyeqdevelopment.com
GlobalTrac, Inc. has developed a unique and economical means of providing full food animal and produce trace ability in alignment with the USDA National Animal Identification System (NAIS) and Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). Using a pre-configured smart phone, animal and produce data is recorded easily in the field and transmitted quickly and securely to a NAIS compliant database. Data such as health information, vaccinations, weight, animal or produce ID and other life cycle events is sent directly to the database along with time, date and GPS coordinates. This ensures that the data will be accurate and available to the rancher, farmer or USDA as quickly as possible to contain outbreaks of food related illnesses. By using this food identification and tracking system, the USDA can rapidly assess and contain any reports or evidence of a food related problem such as the deadly E. coli or salmonella pathogens.
GlobalTrac is seeking $2 million dollars in this round of funding. The funds will be used to add to staff, migrate the system to the new Treo 800 due to be released in the fall of 2009, and to commercialize our product and launch to the general public.
Contact:
David Ridling, President
704-212-6076 | davidridling@carolina.rr.com
www.carolina.rr.com
IRFlex is in a unique position to develop and supply mid-infrared fiber-optic devices for the military. These mid-infrared fiber products are key components in the new anti-missile systems for the military and commercial aircrafts: fiber transmission cable, fiber-optic switch, and fiber laser. The Government wants to have a U.S. supplier of commercial mid-infrared fibers and devices. IRFlex has the best expertise and technology to become the exclusive supplier of the mid-infrared fibers and devices for the anti-missile market. The estimated anti-missile market is $750M to equip 5000 military aircrafts with mid-infrared fiber-optic devices over the next 15 years. This is a captive market meaning the supplier of qualified products will have sole supply exclusivity. Chemical sensors and other emerging commercial markets will also benefit from the new mid-infrared fiber devices.
IRFlex is seeking private funding of approximately $1M to acquire the fiber-optic equipment and produce commercial products.
Contact:
Francois Chenard, President
418-655-4228 | francois.chenard@irflex.com
www.irflex.com
Loladex, Inc. is a local search engine that allows users to find local businesses based on recommendations from people they know. By integrating with existing social networks, Loladex emulates the word-of-mouth process that most people prefer for choosing local merchants. In addition to reviews from friends, Loladex provides users a complete picture by incorporating basic information on more than 16 million local businesses; editorial from trusted sources like Washingtonian Magazine; and useful tools like restaurant reservations from Open Table. Loladex launched a public beta version on Facebook in March, focusing on the DC Metro area.
With $350K invested so far, Loladex is seeking an additional $750K in seed funding to support growth of its existing product and expansion onto other web, social and mobile platforms. Based in Leesburg, VA, Loladex was co-founded by Laurence Hooper and Dan Goodman, two former AOL executives with twelve years’ combined experience in local online products.
Contact:
Dan Goodman, Co-founder and COO
301-404-8787 | dan@loladex.com
www.loladex.com
Ordia Solutions, Inc.'s Ordia Solutions, Inc.’s Mobile Tactical Collaboration System” (MTCS) is a web-based software application
that allows law enforcement officers and other first-responders to communicate and collaborate visually
in real-time using tactical graphics, digital maps, and shared workspaces to enable highly effective
command & control without ever having to setup a physical command post. The Company has current
engagements with several of the major city police departments like DC Metro, Baltimore, Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia, Dallas, and Richmond. Three of these engagements have already begun to generate
revenues and the Company has a growing sales pipeline approaching $6M.
Ordia Solutions already has raised $630k in investment capital and currently is seeking an additional
$500k. These funds will be used to continue operations and build customer support infrastructure
while the early-adopter deals continue towards closing.
Contact: Joe Ordia, CEO
703-231-1007 | jordia@ordiasolutions.com
www.ordiasolutions.com
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Changefire provides easy-to-use, outcome-focused software-as-a-service that enables employers
consumers to proactively manage health and fitness. Changefire targets organizations of all sizes,
focuses on using “fun” to increase participation (and ROI) significantly over the current industry-
14% participation levels in wellness programs.
Changefire is early revenue stage, and seeking $2 million to focus on sales and marketing..
Contact: Irfan Kamal, President and CEO
703-549-1988 | irfan1@changefire.com
www.changefire.com
March 14, 2008 Business Alliance Grubstake
Breakfast Presenters
ArguSight, Inc. has developed a gigapixel video camera technology that can blanket an entire city at once with video at five frames per second enabling the company to launch innovative geospatial products and services with applications for the military, transportation, crime surveillance, and homeland Security. This camera technology promises to create new video services markets and change aerial imagery services as we know them today. Imagine creating imagery of the entire Gulf Coast 3 days before and after Katrina for the insurance industry, or imagine recording persistent video surveillance over an entire city while sending streaming high definition video to multiple responders on the ground. Situational awareness on this scale never was feasible until now. ArguSight has removed significant technology risk through previous government investment. The company currently is seeking $1-$2M in investment capital to build a second camera to launch services and support sales demonstrations; to facilitate the firm’s market launch, and the development of a new color version camera.
Contact: Stuart Claggett, CEO | p. 703-451-1777 X 101,
sclaggett@argusight.com | www.argusight.com
Conflicts Authority Inc. mitigates risk and assures compliance by identifying potential conflicts of interest in the legal and financial services community using a system which tracks interlocking relationships among officers, directors, key personnel, stockholders, corporations, subsidiaries and branches. The firm’s mission is to provide an extensive database of these unique corporate interlocking relationships. Conflicts Authority’s management team grew a company in this industry from $0 to $22 million in annual revenue and sold the company for more than $50 million. The firm’s co-founders have over 14 years experience working together growing and managing a successful organization within the legal and business information industry. The company currently is seeking $2M in investment capital to acquire data, build additional unique data sets, create data linkages, maintain timely and accurate updates, and create the infrastructure required to launch the online product in July of 2008.
Contact: Phil Brown, Co-Founder President & CEO
p. 703-917-4293 | phil.brown@conflictsauthority.com
www.conflictsauthority.com
Health e-Lunch Kids, Inc. offers a broad, nutrition based platform for wellness which utilizes proprietary web based menu planning and nutrition-focused lunch solutions personalized for each child to help parents raise, healthy, successful, confident kids! Good food impacts children’s overall well being; their mood, their sleep patterns, their confidence, their grades, their energy, their success. Kids and parents order and pay for lunch online, choosing from an online menu of healthy items. Lunches are prepared fresh daily and delivered to schools and camp. Health e-Lunch Kids utilizes a network of suppliers and distribution partners to produce and deliver to schools, camps and retail outlets. The company currently is seeking $250K in investment capital for staffing needs, information systems, marketing and legal expenses associated with creating a commercial agreement.
Contact: Monica Tomasso, Founder & CEO | p. 703-402-9064
monica@healthelunchkids.com
www.healthelunchkids.com
Innovative Biologics, Inc. - (IBI) is an anti-infective drug company targeting microbes producing pore-forming toxins, an applicable to MRSA, HCV, and Influenza. wo lead MRSA compounds currently are undergoing cell-based assays and mice studies with at least one of them expected to be validated this year. Many pathogens utilize the formation of pores in the membranes of target cells in the process of infection. IBI has developed the CycloPlex" platform to identify compounds which inhibit their action, based on blocking the target pore with molecules having the same symmetry as the pore itself, using ß-cyclodextrin as a scaffold. This approach is applicable to MRSA, HCV, Influenza, efflux pump mechanisms and neutralizing virulence in anthrax. IBI’s priority research program is MRSA, a $28 billion market where existing treatments are insufficient to address patient needs, and treatment regimens are moving toward combinations of two or more drugs as long-term solutions. IBI has secured $1.7 million in NIH grant funding and a $200,000 investment from the CIT BioLife Fund. Currently, IBI is seeking a seed $750K-$1M to initiate preclinical testing on IB-201.
Contact: Jeff Conroy, CEO | p. 703-346-0751
jxc@innovbio.com | www.innovbio.com
SETECS, Inc. develops and markets advanced smart card software products for the identity and access management market using sophisticated software "applets" with enhanced credentials to verify identity and authorization for physical/logical access purposes residing in the smart cards and "middleware" facilitating communication between both desktop or handheld devices that facilitates communication with smartcards. The global market for identity and access management solutions is estimated to reach $10 billion over the next several years and is expanding rapidly across key government and commercial sectors. SETECS has market tested products that have generated over $1.0 million in sales through 2007. The company currently is seeking $500K in investment capital to help fund continued operations and product certifications, with the expectation of raising roughly $3 million in a Series A investment to provide the company with the working capital and financial resources necessary to support a rapid expansion of the company's sales and operations during the second half of this year.
Contact:
Mark Heffernan,
Vice President of Finance and Administration
p. 301-587-7877 | mark.heffernan@setecs.com
www.setecs.com
Spotlight Tables
HailCab Service is a free Location Based Service allowing anyone with a cell phone/smartphone to Hail a Cab to his/her location and know exactly when it is arriving--no more downtime walking aimlessly, yelling, waving your arms, standing in the cold, remembering cab phone numbers, etc.
The mobile phone HailCab service is the best way to catch a cab and its free! No more walking aimlessly, squinting, yelling, waving your arms, standing in the cold, remembering cab phone numbers etc. HailCab is a Location Based Service that allows anyone with a cell phone or smartphone to use a map of nearby cabs and the GPS technology in their cell phone to hail a cab right to their exact location and know exactly when it is arriving. There are demos and over 15 features of Hail Cab for the Commuter, Cab Driver and Cab Co over at www.HailCab.com.
Contact:
Andrew Weyrich, CEO | p. 703-395-9735
aweyrich@gmail.com | www.hailcab.com
www.weyrichenterprises.com
Searchles is a highly scaleable social search, bookmarking, and networking platform with online video mash up as well as online video editing tool that showcases expertise, enablingcollaboration with peers and instant capture of information. Beyond the portal itself, the Social Discovery for media solutions technology is targeted to meet the needs of original content publishers who require tools for better connecting and monetizing their audience and content as well as expanding reach. Searchles raised $1.425M from angel and currently is seeking an additional $2M to expand the Index and user base; hire developers, engineers, and a marketing and business development executive.
Contact: Elias Shams, CEO | p. 202-903-2413
eshams@searchles.com | www.searchles.com
October 23, 2007 Business Alliance Grubstake
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BioFactura is a biopharmaceutical development company focused on solving unmet medical and national security needs in the infectious disease arena. With a pipeline including therapeutics, vaccines, diagnostics, and biomanufacturing technologies, BioFactura intends to bring critical products rapidly to market. The company’s lead initiative is its Smallpox Biodefense Therapeutic that has been demonstrated to consistently neutralize virus. Drug development is supported by a direct collaboration with the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. This critical countermeasure may be procured for US stockpiles as soon as 2010 with combined contract values of over $400 million.
BioFactura, in partnership with world leaders in tropical medicine, also is developing a field-ready diagnostic kit to detect the Lassa fever virus, a biothreat endemic to West Africa. This technology is being applied to both vaccine and therapeutic development. In addition, BioFactura is developing a new biomanufacturing system for the manufacture of its products.
BioFactura is seeking to raise a total $12.5 million in two tranches over the next 12-18 months to move the Company’s lead products into clinical trials and commercialization. The first tranche of $2.0 million is needed to advance BioFactura’s smallpox therapeutic program through pre-clinical studies to an Investigational New Drug (IND) filing in late 2008, cover patent and license fees, ramp up headcount, and provide a contingency cash reserve.
Contact: Darryl Sampey, President & CEO, 240-620-3566, dsampey@biofactura.com, www.biofactura.com
Dynawave has a patented plasma technology that generates extremely powerful shock waves which can be used to quickly and efficiently purifies wastewater. A majority of the 30,000 wastewater facilities in the US will be upgraded during the next decade. Non-US facilities may increase the number by ten times. The average facility upgrade cost is $20 million. The Dynawave solution is more effective, cheaper, smaller, scalable, and is environmentally cleaner than current technologies. Profits per site could exceed $5 million. Averaging only 60 installations/year (0.2% of the US market) could produce $300 million/year in profit.
Dyanwave’s pulsed technology also can be applied to desalinization, hazardous waste, mining, pulp processing, and Government applications. Any of these could be another multi-million dollar business.
Dynawave is seeking $1.5 million to fund a functioning prototype. Fund use includes: final formal design, $200K; solution construction, $800K; on-site testing and modification, $250K; working capital, legal, $250K.
Contact: Stephen Miko, 540-989-8849, COO, steve@igniteboom.com
Mpowerplayer helps mobile gaming publishers more effectively market and sell their games. Inefficiencies in existing mobile merchandising and monetization are widely acknowledged as a high-profile problem by major industry players and analysts. Mpowerplayer brings the "iTunes" approach to mobile game merchandising, and customers include Sprint-Nextel and Electronic Arts.
The company is post-revenue, cash-flow positive, and seeks $2MM in equity financing to accelerate direct sales, expand customer support, and enhance core application technology and services.
Contact: Michael Powers, Founder & CEO, 703-880-6556x102, michael@mpowerplayer.com, www.mpowerplayer.com
Vecter’s Ezfon service unleashes the power of cellphones to buy and sell anywhere. EZfon is a patent pending mobile point of sale service enabling cellphones to be secure terminals for pay per use transactions. Businesses can use EZfon as a credit card machine while saving up to 40% of the cost of traditional swiping methods. Individuals can avoid wait times using their cell phones to order and pay for food or items in advance. There is no charge to consumers for them to use EZfon.
Vecter has negotiated a BETA trial with the Patriot Center at George Mason University, and is seeking $500K in angel funding to support BETA trials
Contact: George Kim, President, 703-400-8300, george.kim@vectersolutions.com, www.ezfon.com
Spotlight Table: BuddyCast, Inc.
Contact: Marcel McNicoll, President & Founder, 301-650-2248, marcel@buddy-cast.com, www.buddy-cast.com
Spotlight Table: LightGlove
Contact: M.G. Howard, Founder & CTO, 703-754-3032, mghoward@lightglove.com, www.lightglove.com
June 12, 2007 Business Alliance Grubstake Breakfast Presenters
Globecom21 Corporation is uniquely positioned as the only developer of a comprehensive, flexible, easy to deploy, seamless information software solution for enterprise risk and crisis management. The firm’s Enterprise Resiliency Solution (“ERS™”) is a risk diagnostic tool and expert system which uses a protocol based event notification and incident management system for crisis prevention, response and recovery--all conducted from a collaborative command and control center. The ERS™ expert system provides risk and emergency managers the knowledge they need to make decisions and to execute actionable tasks to manage risk and crisis in the most efficient manner. It provides the intelligence behind the notification system, and can accept and incorporate feedback from its audience for dynamic updating of the risk management action plan.
The ERS™ platform identifies, categorizes, assesses and monitors risk, and then, incorporating best practices, recommends and coordinates event responses remotely. The system can be used as a crisis prevention management tool, systematically managing the execution of mitigation measures based on an optimized list of priorities. It also can be used to provide an automated response plan with a virtual command and control dash-board, automatically pushed to first-responders and emergency executives for efficient and quick management of an emergency incident remotely. Enhanced by an e-learning and a procurement module, the platform can match industry, customer-specific or sector-specific behavior recommendations to critical events. At the time of an emergency incident, the system also is capable of automatically inviting and sharing the command and control dash-board viewed by the enterprise emergency executives with pre-authorized municipal agencies for a better coordinated public/private partnership response to the incident. Globecom21 is seeking $1.7 million in equity to invest in commercial market development and version2 completion. Investors’ return will occur at the time of a liquidity event, either a sale, recapitalization, or public offering, most likely an acquisition.
Contact: Mady Jalinous, CEO, 202-271-3090, jalinous@GlobeCom21.com
Idalis Software has developed a patent pending solution to the ever growing spam control problem. Idalis' unique advantage is its software’s ability to track sending source IP addresses and to stop spam before it's sent to customers. Idalis’ performance metrics are thus far exceeding industry market leaders and have remained consistent through beta testing. Idalis’ product offering is a Windows software based solution for small and medium clients and a separate reputation database service (IP address blocking) for customers of any size, including those using a competitor product. The licensing model is per user (email account)/per year as a service with tiered pricing based on customer size. Idalis is seeking a qualified financing in excess of $1.0 million for a planned final code release of both services in late summer 2007. Idalis already is establishing a client base with this new and revolutionary solution.
Contact: Tom Caldwell, CEO, 240-593-9257, tom@idalissoftware.com
RemeGenix, Inc (RGX) is a biotechnology company specializing in the development and commercialization of therapies for neurodegenerative diseases. Specifically, RGX is focused on the commercialization of technologies with well validated scientific data for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, dementia and traumatic brain injury.
Unlike most other competitive products in development, RGX's lead technology does not interfere with other important biological pathways, and is focused on the cause of the disease versus treating the symptoms. RGX has completed nearly all of the pre-clinical studies required for its lead product for traumatic brain injury and is seeking up to $1.5 million to bring the company into a Phase I clinical trial and to accelerate the development of its second pipeline.
Contact: J. Kelly Ganjei, CEO and President, 301-332-0123, kganjei@remegenix.com
The Learning Accelerator (TLA) addresses the decline in writing skills among students and professionals by providing the only writing and assignment management products that are comprehensive, easy-to-use, web-based, and interactive. TLA products guide writers through the steps and thought processes necessary to produce high quality written products. They enable users to create clear and logical written assignments with reduced difficulty and anxiety; to store, organize and integrate text and graphic information from all sources; to develop critical thinking and writing skills; and to manage an unlimited number of projects.
TLA’s first product—the Writing Wiz for Students--includes preparation for the SAT’s essay and essays for college admission applications. Future products will address the writing needs of professionals such as lawyers, business consultants, scientists and engineers. TLA is seeking $1.5 million to be used for updating the user interface, content development, salaries, and marketing.
Contact: Richard Sun, Chairman and Interim CFO , 703-937-3928, RSun@TheLearningAccelerator.com
WorthPoint, a multi-media data and entertainment company founded in January 2007, is the first Web 2.0 site for collectors and collectibles. WorthPoint will greatly simplify the way people find and share information about art, antiques and collectibles they own or are considering buying. WorthPoint also is for anyone who owns something he/she believes may have value or be collectible. WorthPoint will help find its true worth! The value can be determined by using the company’s blog the Worthopedia of world-wide proprietary bid and ask values, or by asking one of the company’s Worthologists. WorthPoint will also have a virtual vault where images may be stored and values updated. These products are organized using proprietary taxonomy, which is the most detailed catalogue in the Industry. The taxonomy’s detail results in collectors, professionals and everyday owners to quickly find the exact item being sought.
WorthPoint has a seasoned management team, a strong group of investors and a CEO who has made investors billions of dollars in other technology companies. WorthPoint has raised $800,000 from the founder and four other well-known technology investors. WorthPoint seeks additional funding of $2 million to accelerate the populating of the data base and the building of the brand. The market WorthPoint is addressing is enormous, worldwide, fragmented and in need of the company’s technology.
Contact: William Seippel, CEO, 404-931-7913,
email: will@worthpoint.com
website: www.worthpoint.com
Spotlight Table
IO Innovations, LLC is launching MileFile™, a patent-pending device that tracks mileage for tax or reimbursement purposes using audio and GPS technology. MileFile™ is the only mileage recording device that meets the IRS criteria for business deductions. MileFile™ can be adapted for use on cell phones and PDAs with GPS capability. IO Innovations is seeking $550,000 to take the design to market-readiness, and for focused SG&A.
Contact: Daniel Chambers, Founder and President, 434-542-0525, dc@ioinno.com
March 23, 2007 Business Alliance Grubstake Breakfast Presenters
Invequity connects the people behind technology. The companies offers a proprietary patent search and connection portal to foster Open Innovation. Patent searching is a fundamental activity for the 3+ million people behind technology and product development and our free feature rich patent search site (www.patentmonkey.com) provides the nexus for connections. Invequity’s technology enables direct connections of technology holders with potential licensees and innovators with service providers.
Serving a clientele base including members of the Fortune 500, Invequity’s offerings have been pilot tested and launched into the market using capital efficient methods. Invequity reaches its audience through search engine optimization of its 4 million web pages and grass roots marketing efforts. Users of PatentMonkey.com save 30% or more time in performing their regular search activities.
Newsworthy, Inc. is the leader in automatically converting publisher’s full-length newspaper and web stories to high-quality audio.
Newspaper circulation and readership continue to decline precipitously. Newspapers must find new sources of revenue that leverage their investment in content and simultaneously attract new consumers. Newsworthy is a solution! Publishers post these audio stories on their websites and in podcasts Newsworthy creates. Newsworthy attaches banner and audio advertisements to the stories and shares this new advertising revenue with the publisher.
Newsworthy has over two dozen newspapers using their services today. Newsworthy also produces NewsworthyAudio, the world’s first Personal Audio Newspaper. NewsworthyAudio users receive Personalized Podcasts of full length news stories for up to ten different categories of news, aggregated and filtered from multiple publishers.
Scorelogix, LLC is an innovative financial technology company that develops and markets cutting edge decision tools, metrics and analytics for consumer credit risk management. Scorelogix is a pioneer in income risk scoring and the inventor of the world’s first Job Security Score which predicts consumers’ income risk and creditworthiness based on their personal profiles and economic factors impacting their jobs.
Patent-pending Job Security Score gives lenders a better picture of consumers’ true credit risk and offers a new way to differentiate and segment prospects and consumers. Job Security Score helps credit card companies, auto financing companies, mortgage lending companies, insurance providers and marketing companies; acquire, retain and manage customers more profitably by predicting consumers’ ability-to-pay risk, which is a critical component of consumers’ overall credit risk.
Scorelogix is currently seeking $2M in funding for investing in marketing, testing, product enhancement and technology infrastructure.
Contact:
Suresh Annappindi, President & CEO
Tel: 302-328-1210
Email: suresh@scorelogix.com
Website: www.scorelogix.com
WebSolve, Inc. develops and markets IP service assurance systems for web and VoIP application performance and compliance management to service providers and enterprises.
The business opportunity is driven by three mega trends: 1) the convergence of data, voice, and video over IP Networks; 2) the deployment of web based applications and services to support internal and customer facing operations; and 3) government regulations regarding web based content.
WebSolve believes there are profitable opportunities for software solutions that enable service providers and enterprises to a) assure services and applications are available; b) verify the services and applications are performing to specification and the content is accurate; and c) guarantee that web site content is compliant with government regulations and service agreements.
WebSolve is seeking $2,000,000 in equity capital to be used primarily to develop a marketing and sales organization and a hosted software service operation.
Contact: Gregory Langford, 240-401-3150, glangford@websolve.com
October 25 , 2006 Business Alliance Grubstake Breakfast Presenters
MADCAD’s goal is to organize building codes, standards and regulations in the construction industry. Compliance to building codes, standards and regulations is a must for every business practice in the construction industry.
Orchid Suites is an emerging leader in providing user friendly web site creation and management, distributed publishing, franchise management and portal communications software for professional service firms and end users.
SPADAC is the premier provider of relevant and actionable information to the owners of the world’s most critical decisions. Customers rely on SPADAC’s predictive analysis products and services, many developed and proven under federal R&D grants, to make better decisions faster, leveraging patented technologies, computerized visualization services and domain expertise.
TradingBell Inc. provides Product Catalog Solutions for manufacturers, wholesalers and distributors to automate the creation and publishing of commercial Business-to-Business (B2B) product catalogs. TradingBell Solutions are exclusively focused on solving and simplifying the catalog management process for companies.
Velaro is an Application Service Provider (ASP) that allows businesses to add live help and real time customer service to their website. This service offers three main features: real time website visitor monitoring, web based chat, and integrated survey management.
Spotlight Table: Neuronascent, Inc.
Neuronascent, Inc. is developing small molecule therapeutics for Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and depression. Neuronascent’s development platform utilizes a “neurogenesis” screen to identify agents that stimulate the proliferation of human neural stem cells into mature neurons.
June 15 , 2006 Business Alliance Grubstake Breakfast Presenters
Enterprise Elements, Inc. is a software product company producing a massively scaleable, feature rich data management system, and products built upon this platform. The core product capitalizes on the popular Oracle database to facilitate the accelerated construction of complex online systems and provide important features not found in the Oracle product alone.
iNeoMarketing™ is an on-demand, hosted software application company in Herndon, VA, focused on significantly increasing sales leads and reducing the sales cycle for B2B companies. PluraPage™, the firm’s initial product, is a hosted application that allows the non-technical user to quickly build and launch customized, personalized web pages, commonly called landing pages, which play an integral role in marketing.
Security Knowledge Solutions LLC, an e-solutions company specializing in the multi-billion dollar Homeland Security market, provides eLearning, ‘hands-on’ simulation and knowledge management services to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of security checkpoint personnel. The company has released its first product: iScreen, a simulation system which introduces security personnel to the image interpretation techniques used while operating x-ray machines.
South49 Solutions develops and markets proprietary task force management and data collection software for industries with widely distributed workforces. The company’s solution generates recurring revenue through transaction and access fees charged on a monthly basis and is applicable to any industry where critical tasks need to be remotely managed.
XTS products bring business intelligence concepts to the datacenter. The company offers turn- key systems management reporting and analysis products for virtualization and access infrastructure platforms. XTS fills a gap left open by more complex enterprise management suites.
Honorable Mention—Display Table Awardee
StreamerNet is focused on the development of intellectual property and the creation and sale of user-friendly, personalized, click-and-stream technologies and enterprise-class managed services that let users rapidly create, capture and distribute “on demand” or “real-time” audio and video across the Internet for single-viewer or global participation.
March 23, 2006 Business Alliance Grubstake Breakfast Presenters
Dumbfind goes above and beyond traditional search engines by acting as a guide in the query refinement process. When you can't find what you are looking for, Dumbfind will present suggestions for which direction to turn. These suggestions are simple and visually intuitive.
HotPads.com is a map-based housing search engine. Our proprietary mapping application allows users to search using real estate’s most important attribute: location. Since its November 2005 launch, HotPads.com has positioned itself as technological leader in real estate listing for the residential rental market.
Message Level brings safety and reliability to email. Message Level is the only email authentication solution that prevents impersonation of legitimate email addresses through a process that requires no action by end users – making it ideal for large volume email senders.
nexVortex is a provider of business grade telecommunications services based on VoIP technology. We offer an IP based alternative for connecting business customers to the global PSTN. nexVortex is uniquely positioned to capture a significant share of this market as businesses continue to choose IP PBX technology over traditional TDM.
SubMachine, Corp. is a developer of proprietary miniature pumps and compressors that have the potential to disrupt large existing markets and enable the creation of others. SubMachine’s Reaction-Drive technology eliminates the expensive electric motors which comprise 90% of competitor’s product cost.
October 20, 2005 Business Alliance Grubstake Breakfast Presenters
ADF Solutions, Inc. is a developer of software solutions designed to address the issue of the growing backlog of digital evidence facing agencies today. None of the software currently available through other companies provides the technology to automatically identify known suspect data files. With the amount of digital data in this area increasing exponentially, the need to automatically identify suspect files is becoming critical. ADF Solutions, Inc. will provide its unique SearchPak™ technology to allow agencies to create, manage and share suspect file information.
Cident delivers foreign language TV television programming to ethnic American homes using excess over the air bandwidth from digital TV stations. The companies proprietary delivery methods allow it to offer multiple channels of premium subscription based programming to homes that are currently underserved by cable and satellite. Cident has successfully signed six programmers (with exclusivity on key content) for its Korean service and is broadcasting from a Washington DC TV station.
Endeavor Security is a software development company focused on securing our nation's critical infrastructure. The company's breakthrough technology can identify and fingerprint new threats and offers an immediate solution that can be deployed to secure a network using an approach similar to anti virus for the pc. Endeavour Security's self-defending FirstLight product suite can auto generate signature updates in milliseconds, test them and deploy them to standard firewalls and IPS devices.
InvisiTrack has developed proprietary RF-based technology that is much less expensive to implement than RFID or GPS solutions and can solve problems much better than the available solutions. An enormous amount of time and money - even lives - could be saved if it were possible to easily and inexpensively track people and mobile objects .
Talicyn, Inc. is a developer and manufacturer of Software Defined Radio control systems, middle-ware, cognitive-systems, and Smart Antenna Technology which allow the configuration of commercial base stations supporting the spectra of radio communications from VHF to Cellular and ADS. In a Talicyn empowered world, a wireless base station can support communications between First Responders (Fire Police/Rescue), differing PCS cellular phones (GSM/CDMA/TDMA/IDEN), and in an emergency – Federal responders and the Military on the same hardware platform.
June 9, 2005 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
Video Search Technology (VST) is a developer of multi-media video processing software products, professional services and application services. These products and services are based on the company's proprietary searchable video platform and are designed for the worldwide market of corporations, media and entertainment companies, government agencies, and educational institutions that produce video content.
String Bean Software, Inc. has developed WinTarget™--a scalable, full-featured, hardware independent, software-based iSCSI Storage Area Networking (SAN) solution--designed, built, and optimized for the Microsoft computing environment. Deploying the WinTarget™ easy-to-use SAN solution, enables organizations of any size to cost-effectively meet critical business requirements while reducing operational costs, meeting regulatory requirements, and the need for improved disaster recovery/business continuity solutions.
Jebra Technologies is a health sciences company with patents on tissue preservation and neuroprotection against reperfusion injury and nerve gas. (Reperfusion is the restoration of blood flow to an organ or tissue that has had its blood supply cut off, as after a heart attack.) The company's Vitaegen™ product extends the shelf life of corneas for transplantation from 5 to 35 days, doubling the eye bank market and enabling exports to lucrative overseas markets.
BioSciCon, Inc. recently has completed the translational research required to commercialize, MarkPap,® its proprietary line of products intended to improve the standard of care for cervical cancer prevention. Though cervical cancer is a preventable disease if it is detected on time, unfortunately, 500,000 women get cervical cancer and 300,000 die from it each year. BioSciCon believes it can make a difference and save women's lives by offering more accurate, less expensive technology with prospect of self-collection and telecytopathology.
Visure offers a platform technology which catalogs and measures product placements, a rapidly growing form of advertising in which real brands of real products are used in movies, television, or any entertainment production. The platform is strategically marketed as two components: e Visure, which facilitates consumer experiences while delivering ad messages to support the product placement, and i Visure, which is a metrics and analytics tool for brand managers.
March 9, 2005 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
Bent Systems, Inc.— is a RFID software solutions developer marketing technology for Enterprise and Supply Chain Applications including a horizontal platform for RFID technology integration across industries, and a vertical supply chain application for retailers, distributors, and suppliers.
Blue Ridge Games,® Inc.—(BRG) is a publisher of multiplayer games for mobile phones and other platforms which has developed technology enabling real-time multi-user interaction over a high latency network already in use by subscribers of Verizon Wireless and other companies.
iRCA, Inc.— is a developer of an innovative patent-pending, universal information display system that facilitates decision-making by working in conjunction with existing databases to distill the database information in a way that makes accurate, quick decisions in a variety of day-to-day applications possible. Its product, K-bar®, sits atop databases and quickly make sense of the information in them. Designed for lay people, K-bar applies to any industry where making accurate decisions quickly matters.
New Hope Pharmaceuticals, Inc.— is a developer of patented technology which provides more effective therapy options and improves outcomes for cancer patients by quickly determining--pre-treatment--the selection and optimum dosage of chemotherapy drugs, and also accelerates drug discovery by providing a fast, accurate methodology for drug efficacy appraisal in vitro.
The Bill Police, LLC — is a wireless bill auditing firm which uses a patent pending service method with proprietary software to create a model for plan optimization and then audit the bills on a monthly basis by comparing to this baseline thereby substantially reducing the customer's cell phone service bills.
Honorable Mention—Display Table Awardee
PartnerMD is redefining health care by offering patient members access to levels of service and personal attention previously unavailable in today's primary care practices. Patient members pay an annual membership fee to receive a higher level of customer service, on-time appointments, healthcare on demand 24/7, 30 minute minimum appointments with their physician and proactive, personalized wellness programs.
October 21, 2004 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
4Wave Inc.
4Wave is the premier developer of advanced, sub-nanometer, deposition and etching technologies. These technologies initially were developed to enable the manufacturing of 4Wave's miniature multi-filter chip. The multi-filter chip will enable the implementation of 10GBE on the installed multi-mode fiber. 4Wave also has been delivering biased target deposition equipment to companies in various industries such as the data storage and optical storage industries.
Utilizing TV-like displays networked through centralized content servers, Balywho, Inc . supplies and operates Internet-enabled media solutions in the elevators of high-rise buildings. Balywho programming includes entertainment, tenant communications, and advertisements, displayed to a captive and affluent audience.
EZArchive, Inc.
EZArchive is an exciting new provider of online personal media management services. As a subscription-based portal for consumers, EZArchive provides the easiest and most effective way to preserve, access and share digital content online. The EZArchive solution is designed specifically to address the management issues resulting from the growing worldwide digital revolution.,
Roadstar Internet, Inc.
Roadstar Internet is the premier wireless broadband network provider serving enterprise and residences in the mid-Atlantic region. Roadstar operates its own wireless network using various licensed and unlicensed spectrum. With a unique, scalable network architecture that includes a wireless, high-speed core infrastructure, Roadstar provides efficient connectivity solutions to enterprise, residences, towns, municipalities, and enhanced service providers.
Sensics, Inc.
Sensics uses patented cutting-edge technologies to make wide-field displays and cameras without performance trade-offs. The company's goal is to become the leading supplier of augmented reality solutions (displaying real-world data combined with computer-generated information) both to the military and to commercial customers.
June 15, 2004 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
Fidelis Security Systems, Inc.
Fidelis Security Systems provides a new category of content security solutions called extrusion prevention systems that detect and prevent the unauthorized transfer of sensitive/valuable information off computer networks. DataSafe™ is the first extrusion prevention system™. DataSafe works by identifying critical data types leaving designated sensitive information areas, stopping the data transfer in real time, and collecting forensic evidence. Fidelis has targeted the U.S. Department of Defense, healthcare privacy (HIPAA), and financial services privacy (Gramm-Leach-Bliley) markets.
MicroLab Diagnostics
MicroLab Diagnostics has products that can be marketed in one year that solve critical problems in the forensic market. Key customers, the FBI and Cellmark, already are lined up.. MicroLab has an extensive technology platform (12 patents) that for the first time covers all steps needed for performing “complex” diagnostic assays in the Biochip format. Currently these assays require 3 to 4 hours to two-day procedures. MicroLab’s are simple ten minute, one-step formats.
Transactis, Inc.
Transactis has a unique, patent-pending bill payment service that facilitates secure ACH and credit card payments within the email itself. Today, the only “electronic billing” option is online billing, which uses a web site and email is used only as a reminder tool. Over the past 2 ½ years the company has proven that email recipients are 20-to-200% more likely to conduct a transaction in an email versus on a website, if given the choice. Transactis’ email billing product, BillMail™, gives billers a more user-friendly e-billing product that is more likely to be accepted by consumers as the best alternative to paper billing.
VideoNEXT, LLC
VideoNEXT sells software for facility and infrastructure security. Customers are government organizations. Our software glues together video cameras and specialty peripheral devices (including biometric and access control), to help create a secure environment at affordable cost. The software operates on open source Linux. The end user realizes significant cost savings through the use of existing infrastructure, lower installation and operating costs, loss reductions and personnel efficiency improvements.
March 25, 2004 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
Advanced Vision Therapies, Inc.
Advanced Vision Therapies, Inc. (AVT) is an early stage drug discovery company that is entirely focused on the development of sustained, potentially life-long therapies for the major blinding eye diseases. The ocular diseases, such as age-related macular degeneration, have multi-billion dollar markets and significant unmet medical needs, yet have been underserved by large pharma. Recent clinical trial data suggest that these diseases will be treatable, but with therapeutics that must be repeatedly injected directly into the eyes. AVT identified a novel therapeutic and developed a proprietary delivery system, which, with a single administration will provide sustained, possibly life-long, therapy.
ClimaTech Safety, Inc.
When it is ‘hot as Hell' and the job still must get done, ClimaTech's patented cooling vests--wearable personal air conditioning—help personnel stay cool! More people die in the U.S. from heat than from all natural disasters combined. U.S. industry suffers an estimated $25 billion in productivity losses annually due to heat. ClimaTech has solutions: Affordable, effective, simple, proven superior solutions based on technology protected by our four patents.
Verication, LLC
Verication's products provide a non-destructive, forensic test combined with a global database of product information to eliminate medication errors in pharmacies and hospitals and to detect counterfeit drugs in the pharmaceutical supply chain.
WPS Company
WPS Company manufactures technology for on-site medical waste and confidential media destruction. The processed waste is reduced 80% in volume and 15% in weight and is totally sterile, non recognizable and non hazardous. The end product can be handled by any landfill. Technology serves several vertical markets: Healthcare, pharmaceutical, clinical labs, surgical centers, nursing homes, government etc. The essence of the technology is steam sterilization and the simultaneous maceration of material in a closed pressure vessel, generating no odors or negative air emissions thus noted as the best environmentally-safe product on the market.
November 20, 2003 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
American Solar Inc.
American Solar, Inc. (ASI) produces a patent-protected Solar Thermal Tile System to provide low-cost heat. ASI's system can be installed as an attractive, weather-tight roof of a building or as a ground mounted system. ASI's system heats air up to 190 degrees and collects 10 to 15 times more solar heat energy than the electric energy it consumes to run the fan .
LightSpin Technologies, Inc .
LightSpin Technologies, Inc. develops the world's highest performance photon detectors. OEM customers need these components in billion-dollar sectors where the sheer performance of these components wins or loses market share. Government customers need LightSpin's products for critical national functions in defense, health, science and technology.
ReceptorBase, Inc.
ReceptorBase, Inc. is a computational, life sciences discovery-research company with expertise in complex receptor targets. Our technology can reduce the time to discovery of validated genomic targets and lead compounds by one to two years, providing savings up to $100 million per target or per drug. Our long-term vision is to be the leader in the industrialization and commercialization of life science discoveries through computational means.
Simena, LLC
Simena is a software company which was established in October 2002. Its mission is to develop and manufacture intelligent network appliances for its customers to have new network capabilities and business opportunities. Simena's first product is NetworkEmulatorTM which is an appliance that emulates network conditions for realistically testing applications in a laboratory environment. Simena will also have continuing products which will use the core software of NetworkEmulator to help its customers solve their challenging problems.
September, 2003 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program ® Presenters
Abrakadoodle
Abrakadoodle is rapidly becoming a magical name for providing high-quality, educationally sound enrichment classes to children 2 l/2 to 12. The new company especially targets the preschool market for the more than 11 million children in the U.S. under age 5 in daycare. Abrakadoodle model art education program in Northern Virginia is expanding ahead of schedule at host sites including daycare centers, community centers and schools.
AC Technology, Inc. (ACT) is an experienced systems solutions provider specializing in Unix-based security infrastructures for Federal, intelligence, DoD, and commercial clients. In response to its clients. needs, ACT has developed BiObexTM, a powerful biometric fusion software product to provide advanced management of information access control. BiObexTM is a unique middleware system that supports best-of-breed 3rd party biometric input devices. It can accommodate differing security requirements across an organization while providing an open architecture and multiple integration points for enterprise systems.
We develop and market software platforms for the use of wireless, mobile computing technology in instructor-led training and education. Our LearnTrac. and PocketClassroom. systems facilitate live interaction among instructors and trainees, and on-going assessment of learning progress with instant data collection, scoring, analysis and reporting. We improve the effectiveness of instruction, and significantly cut instructors. administrative burdens and costs.
ETHOS Biomedical, LLC is a medical device company in Blacksburg, VA with a focus on the surgical manipulation of fat. ETHOS' proprietary products are designed for two large, growing, and underserved markets. Our first product is a disposable lipoplasty instrument platform for the cosmetic surgery market. Our secondary products are disposable fat grafting instruments intended for both cosmetic and therapeutic markets.
Small to mid-sized enterprises (SME) in manufacturing must solve the same design and manufacturing problems as large integrated manufacturers. Lacking the resources to implement high-end Product Data Management (PDM) and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) solutions, these businesses often resort to manual and error prone solutions. Polygon Software (Polygon) has developed PolyPM, the first product that combines PDM and ERP into a single solution for SMEs.
June 5, 2003 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program ® Presenters
buySAFE, Inc.buySAFE is an online services company that eliminates risk in online auction and eCommerce transactions. The buySAFE solution (i) protects buyers from loss, leaving them feeling safe and secure; (ii) provides credibility for sellers, leading to increased bid prices and profit margins; and (iii) attracts new risk-averse buyers to online auctions, leading to greater marketplace liquidity. buySAFE enables its target customers, small to medium-sized online retailers, to provide their buyers a specialized performance guarantee, thus completely protecting buyers from transaction risk.
Cell Block Technologies Cell Block Technologies Inc. builds products that allow customers to block unwanted wireless communications in restricted areas. For government security the company also provides surveillance capabilities. First implementation of the patent-pending technology is for Cell Phones. The second implementation will be for WiFi (802.11 Wireless Networking).
Elcare Innovations, Inc. Elcare is a pre-revenue medical device company which is privately held and will establish its corporate headquarters once initial funding is secured. Elcare's Founder and President, Dr. Elroy Cantrell, is a practicing emergency room physician who has developed several products in response to a recognized need for improved emergency rescue devices. Elcare intends to design, patent, develop and market these devices to medical professionals and the general public. The first Elcare device to be cleared for marketing by the FDA is a CPR-assist device that will ultimately be as common in homes as a fire extinguisher or smoke detector.
BTC Company provides fully developed enterprise life cycle management solutions. These ERP solutions provide a real time view into mobile and fixed asset management and operations. The software allows management instant access to the data, reporting and operational information necessary to evaluate asset, vehicle and personnel performance while maintaining complete auditable records of sales, costs and revenues. Fully integrated and modular in design, BTC’s ERP Software allows any global vehicular (land sea and air) operation to schedule, operate, invoice, electronically track, allocate, dispatch, schedule maintenance, measure costs, track employee hours and rates, and transfer this data to financial systems in a seamless manner.
February 20, 2003 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
Gigamedia Access Corporation
Gigamedia Access Corporation (“GMA”) enables users to build trusted communities for exchanging high-value business content by incorporating Microsoft’s Windows Rights Management technology to digitally secure content. Members of a GMA community can securely share files and Outlook folders as well as connect through a secure channel to provide trusted communication services among community members.
Internet Energy Systems, Inc.
Internet Energy Systems’ (IES) hardware and software products provide significant return on investment to utilities and large energy consumers in the form of energy cost reduction and increased operational efficiencies. For utilities, IES products combine energy management, distributed generation, substation automation, and even click-of-the-mouse meter reading into a single system. For large energy consumers and deregulated energy suppliers, IES’ offering provides up-to-the-minute usage information to plant managers, corporate energy managers, and energy traders.
LinkSpot Networks
LinkSpot, began operations in February 2002, and now is the leading provider of high-speed wireless Internet access for guests at recreational vehicle parks and campgrounds. Because of limited alternatives available, LinkSpot service is rapidly becoming a need-to-have vs. a nice-to-have amenity within the 16,000+ campgrounds in this market. The value proposition is that park owners can make parks more appealing resulting in higher occupancy.
MicroBanx Systems LLC
MicroBanx is an internet business service provider (iBSP) serving microfinance institutions, small banks and cooperatives (collectively, MFI’s) worldwide. MicroBanx combines superbly architected, award winning banking software with modern communications infrastructure to deliver powerful, subscription based information processing solutions.
Omnia Biologics
Omnia Biologics is a highly experienced team of scientists and biotechnology professionals developing biodefense and vaccine products. Demand greatly exceeds supply in this marketplace and is certain to expand under Project BioShield – a $6 billion initiative. Omnia is investigating innovative technologies and candidates that increase the safety and efficacy of vaccines while decreasing toxicity and cost.
October 30, 2002 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
Advanced Radio Corporation
ARC has developed the FIRST direct digital synthesizer (DDS) that fulfills the current performance void created by existing analog based architectures in both Commercial and Defense applications. ARC's direct digital synthesizer provides a REVOLUTIONARY approach to signal generation, which enables existing Commercial and Defense systems to achieve the required increased levels of performance in today's wireless communication environment.
Qovia, Inc.
Qovia is a leading pioneer in the IP communications systems management market. Its mission is to empower administrative and IT departments of small/medium businesses to simply, efficiently, and reliably manage their IP-Telephony systems and network infrastructure. Traditional telecom systems management tools do not adequately support these businesses' new, software-centric IP-PBX infrastructures. Qovia's products meet this unfulfilled need, dramatically increasing the quality, reliability, and stability of IP communications service.
Reactive Systems, Inc.
Reactive Systems, Inc. is a leading producer of innovative design tools for embedded software. The company's signature Reactis(tm) products automate the testing and validation of such software, which controls applications as diverse as anti-lock braking systems, missile-guidance systems, cardiac pacemakers, and cell phones. Reactis helps companies reduce their embedded-software-related costs by up to 50%.
Softmatic, Inc.
In the aftermath of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Softmatic, Inc., developed ARMOR - a facilities security management software solution - to help large organizations safeguard lives, secure buildings, manage assets, prevent business disruptions, and reduce risk of lost weapons and other key assets. In use by one of the largest police organizations in the country, ARMOR helps manage some 10,000 facilities, tens of thousands of countermeasures, more than a hundred thousand guards and all of the weapons and ammunition they carry, and more than a million employees and daily visitors.
Zeera Networks
Zeera Networks breaks through the cost and complexity barrier that prevents the vast majority of companies from adopting network security solutions by creating a single, lower cost, multi-function security device that provides all the major elements of network security that currently exist as separate products in the marketplace. Tightly coupled with a proprietary, scaleable and easy-to-use management interface, Zeera's innovative solution eliminates customer frustrations, poor performance and high operational costs which result from trying to manage multiple security services and hardware devices across an enterprise network.
July 25, 2002 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
Data Quality Solutions
Data Quality Solutions (DQS) was founded to provide solutions that will enable organizations to prevent their employees, business partners and vendors from entering erroneous data into their operational and marketing systems. In March 2002, DQS filed for a patent on our Enterprise System for Managing Data Quality. DQS believes that this System is a major leap forward in technology since it allows organizations to easily establish data quality processes for each data source as well as to monitor and report on the performance of each individual involved with data quality to all levels of operational and executive management.
Imperium, Inc.
Imperium, Inc. was formed to advance the state of the art in ultrasound imaging. Filling specific needs in a variety of industries, Imperium's Digital Acoustic Video, or DAV, technology, is based on a novel patented semiconductor chip. This integrated circuit technology allows OEM's to expand the application of ultrasound systems into large new markets as well as providing better performing, lower cost systems into today's ultrasound imaging markets.
Karbon Systems
Karbon Systems is designing and developing proprietary applications and technology that includes the only application that exceeds Federal Government standards for the secure transmission of data over wireless networks. The company believes these funds will be sufficient to complete the product development phase and to deploy the product in government agency applications. Karbon also is leveraging its wireless experience to generate short-term revenues through the sale of wireless hardware and software.
LiveCapsule, Inc.
LiveCapsule, Inc. is a software company with a pioneering relationship-enhancing technology. The technology creates branded graphic objects (or icons) containing specific web content that serve as a vehicle to extend the accessibility and utility of web information to the users desktop. With LiveCapsule technology, icons can be captured from a web site and placed on a customer's desktop where they become active, real-time sources for specific, relevant, up-to-the-minute information. For the first time Live Capsule enables businesses to create meaningful, ongoing, one-to-one relationships with potential customers, or prospects, that can remain anonymous.
Phoenix S&T, Inc.
Phoenix S&T, Inc. develops and sells plastic disposable nanoscale lab-on-a-chip devices that generate data with greatly improved specificity and sensitivity for protein sequencing, a sector of proteomics. These devices are compatible with existing robotic sample dispensing equipment and mass spectrometers. The products will be marketed with major vendors for these instruments such as Waters, Amersham etc. to ensure the seamless integration with customers' existing hardware.
April 25, 2002 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
Accelics is a vertical market applications software provider that greatly improves a key area of R&D by as much as 200% and will radically change how R&D is done in these industries. Accelics provides a suite of software and associated implementation services called R&D Enterprise Management or REM™ solutions. These bridge the gap between product discovery and manufacturing by enabling development scientists to use their experimental data in models to predict a variety of important information about a chemical entity's commercial viability, including scaleup.
CaseNEX derives its revenue stream by selling online courses, face-to-face training, and content development for K-12 educators across the nation. CaseNEX momentum builds upon fifteen years of research, six years of delivering content online, over $2 million in grants, and privatization from the University of Virginia in 2001.
Koolspan helps 802.11 (Wi-Fi)) users extend and enhance the functionality of Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) by providing SmartWiFi™, a platform of services and applications. Utilizing the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) technology currently existing in 500 million GSM phones worldwide, SmartWiFi makes Wi-Fi networks safe and simple to use.
Steele Technologies is developing its XtremeLens series of technologically advanced products and services that will have wide appeal in the motorsports and sports entertainment markets, and in the automotive safety monitoring and public safety arenas. The company's inaugural XtremeLens product (patent pending) allows the millions of automobile and motorsports enthusiasts who attend performance driving school programs to relive their personal racecar experience in an enhanced tri-media (audio, video and telemetry) interactive viewing and playback format.
The-Onecard develops and markets Self-Authenticating Smart ID Cards and wireless handheld banking and financial assistants. The-Onecard's products and solutions provide a seamless platform that bridges advances in smartcard technology, biometrics, and wireless handheld devices with Mag-swipe, PoS, and ATM infrastructures. The-Onecard and its consortium partners provide a secure, affordable and customizable on board Self Authenticating Smart ID Card with Personal Banking Assistant (PBA) wireless handheld solution that reduces fraud and related transaction costs while preserving the current payments infrastructure, a business line's profitability, and consumer trust.
January 24, 2002 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
InfoEther LLC
InfoEther LLC is a software startup focused on "Distributed Enterprise Application Integration." The InfoEther Context Engine (ICE) platform executes across PCs in the enterprise to integrate disparate supply chain, CRM and other legacy systems at a fraction of the cost and complexity of centralized EAI solutions. The Company's goal is to enable an individual's PC to both produce AND consume Web Services powered by the integrated corporate systems. This enables simplified, unique experiences to be delivered to each employee without the loss of privacy and cost of traditional personalization techniques.
JT Imaging
JT Imaging (JTI) develops powerful applications to manage, enrich, deliver and display large images on the Web. The applications are designed for maps, aerial and satellite photographs, medical images, paintings and any other images that don't fit on a computer screen. The software works because it makes image management and distribution over the Web quick and effective.
Reactive NanoTechnologies
Reactive NanoTechnologies (RNT) has developed a revolutionary advance in materials joining that offers unique solutions to long-standing industrial problems. RNT's reactive joining process enables soldering or brazing of temperature-sensitive microelectronic components, as well as dissimilar materials such as metals and ceramics.
Relatable, LLC
Relatable develops advanced content identification and personalization software for the digital entertainment industry. Relatable's first product, TRM, is a suite of advanced acoustic fingerprinting software that enables music service providers to identify digital music files based on acoustical properties - the type of information people actually hear. TRM is the only product proven to meet the performance requirements of music service providers, allowing them to pursue effective digital rights management and personalization strategies that attract and retain subscribers.
Re-Route Corporation
Re-Route Corporation provides e-mail forwarding and change of address notification for consumers switching Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Re-Route with ISPs to reduce the largest barrier to switching ISPs by allowing customers to effortlessly transition e-mail addresses. Re-Route's strategy is to market its service to the leading ISPs for inclusion into their customer acquisition programs. Re-Route is currently partnered with AOL, MSN, AT&T and other ISPs.
October 23, 2001 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
Hemodyne, Inc.
Hemodyne is a medical device company located in Virginia with breakthrough blood-related technologies that save lives, reduce cost of care and dramatically enhance quality of care. Its first product, a patented Platelet Analysis System, significantly advances the state of the art in the multi-billion dollar market for assessing platelet health and other sources of bleeding disorders It’s second product, the BioHemostat, is a patented, low-cost, flexible dressing used for treating puncture wounds. When inserted into the wound, BioHemostat absorbs the body's fluids, rapidly expands, and quickly stops bleeding (even high pressure arterial bleeding).
MobileHelix
MobileHelix is a software infrastructure company with products that allow rapid development and deployment of enterprise-class mobile computing solutions. Mobilizing an enterprise means much more than extension of a website to hand held devices. Leading enterprises today demand access to their proprietary back office systems and applications over ANY mobile device, across ANY wireless network, in a secure and reliable manner. Our Intelligent Mobile Integration (IMI) platform interacts with disparate back-office systems and allows users access to their entire enterprise from mobile devices, rather than to discrete applications.
NeoKinetic Systems Inc.
NeoKinetic Systems Inc. provides the industry's only comprehensive server-side solution to the online syndication of web-based applications, thereby allowing customers to avoid the heavy lifting associated with today's syndication methods. NeoKinetic Resonance, NeoKinetic's flagship product,enables customers to leverage both application and brand to multiple alliance channels with faster speed to market, more cost effective results and minimal technology intrusions.
Paestum Networks
Paestum Networks was founded to develop an underlying technology for securely and cost effectively "powering" future generations of wireless network connectivity products and applications.Our product designs enable customers to rapidly develop advanced, feature rich WLAN connectivity products such as network access points and client-side network interface cards while reducing manufacturing costs.
Plethora Technology
Plethora Technology™ offers unparalleled ease of use and productivity in secure distributed business computing for the dispersed workforce. Plethora has developed the Secure Virtual Workspace™, a software product that transparently establishes a framework of secure encrypted IP connections between portable Secure Desktops™ on PCs, over the Internet, to a privately controlled and protected Secure Server™. The encrypted links form a trusted distributed network that serves as a generalized platform for business processing and interaction among business users.
July 26, 2001 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
Eka Systems, Inc.
Eka Systems is a wireless communications and control systems company whose first suite of products is a wireless system for creating and automating intelligent Utility networks. The System uses a wireless standard for communicating data between Utility companies and their customers, enabling Utilities to automatically monitor usage in real time and to provide energy management, energy trading and other E-services to customers.
Cache Box, Inc.
The Point of Sale (POS) segment of the hospitality industry represents a $2.2 billion market annually, and Cache Box, Inc. has already made significant progress in penetrating this market. Its premier software product, Ciao*, has been installed in over 60 commercial establishments, and has been selected as the US Army standard POS software to be installed in up to 800 Army food and beverage facilities worldwide.
Commerce Designs International (CDI)
Commerce Designs International (CDI) is a premier provider of culturally driven globalization software. The company's collection of globalization software products (multi-lingual content management, currency price management, global price modeling and customs/duty management) enable enterprises to create regional and international Internet-based business solutions through multilingual, market specific implementations.
LGA, Inc.
LGA, Inc., a privately held company, is an established enterprise with an 18-year history of success and profitability. LGA has a well-established reputation in the intelligence community for providing high-end IT research and development. They are now leveraging this experience in launching a new product, TheResearchPlace (TRP). Their beta users came from both of these communities. They know the people, they understand the need, and they can build and service the needed technology.
BEICOM, Inc.
BEICOM manufactures, markets, and rents a unique wireless wrist-phone called the Gator™ to visitors of amusement parks, cruise ships, and other entertainment venues. We install a local area network together with a gateway out of the site, enabling voice and data communication beyond the bounds of the facility. The Gator™ thus provides communicating and even locating capabilities, in a combined package, to all members of a subscribing group.
April 26, 2001 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program®
PresentersBulwark Technologies, Inc.
Bulwark Technologies, Inc. is the leading provider of cost-cutting back office automation tools to the Telecommunications industry. Communications Service Providers like Terrestrial and Wireless LECs, Mobile Carriers, ISPs, Cable TV Companies, Satellite Operators, CoLo/Hosting Providers, and ASPs can leverage Bulwark's software solutions to minimize overhead and lower their operating costs. Bulwark
Digital Sandbox, Inc.
Digital Sandbox, Inc. is a security and infrastructure risk management software company. Digital Sandbox has completed the development of Site Profiler®, a patent-pending enterprise risk management system for risk assessors, planners, and resource managers within insurance, corporate, and government organizations. Digital Sandbox licensed Site Profiler to the DoD to conduct antiterrorism risk management on a worldwide basis. Site Profiler predicts the most likely threats, vulnerable assets, and business consequences an organization may face, and assists in the development and prioritization of mitigation plans.
lightspeedAudio
lightspeedAudio has developed and is refining revolutionary, copy protectable compression technology that dramatically shrinks digital audio files, speeding up music downloading [even over traditionally slow modem lines], increasing storage capabilities and delivering significant improvements in music quality for streaming and downloading. lightspeedAudio's music compression is 6-10 times better than today's standards, achieving compression in excess of 60:1.
NetImmune
NetImmune's patent-pending products solve an enterprise's two biggest problems: Monitoring and maintaining the trustworthiness and availability of its own systems and those used by its partners. ImmuneScan® Enterprise Vulnerability Manager combines customer-sited appliances and device agents with remote infrastructure to continuously identify and eliminate vulnerability, performance and availability threats from networks and systems. With SAC® Partner Vulnerability Manager, large enterprise and cross-enterprise enclaves can establish common IT trustworthiness policies and then automate both compliance verification and compliance based management of business and IT relationships. Both products provide a level of manageability, thoroughness, device-to-enclave integration, and low cost not achievable by the competing products and services in the multi-billion dollar security product market.
Xert Communications
Xert Communications develops, licenses and integrates a unique suite of web-based business software that eases the pain of critical business tasks of growing companies. Xert's suite provides a business platform with which growing organizations can streamline manual, paper-based and inefficient processes, resulting in much more effective, efficient and rapid operations. The suite's initial applications consist of inter-connected modules for Recruitment Management, Public Relations, and Sales Force Automation. Xert delivers the only web-based business platform that 1) provides a web-based system for streamlining internal operations 2) interconnects the results of those operations throughout a company's web properties, and 3) provides automated, real-time reporting, broadcasting & dissemination across a company's business network.
January 25, 2001 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
ABYAN
ABYAN is a "Web-Wireless Convergence" software company. ABYAN developed a system for building modular internet/intranet/extranet sites that can deliver user-customized information or personal pages to multiple wired and wireless devices at their optimal display capability.
Roam Secure, Inc.
Roam Secure, Inc. As business markets globalize and road traffic increases, while office utilization rates fall below 50%, demand for mobile communications and security has increased dramatically. Roam Secure's software solution, OnRoad®, capitalizes on these major trends by providing secure wired and wireless mobile VPN communication and collaboration for businesses. Companies now can extend their office LAN to the Internet, thus increasing productivity without compromising security.
HireStrategy
Human talent powers the knowledge-based economy, but many companies face serious difficulties attracting qualified employees. Traditional approaches for finding talent, such as Internet job boards and recruiting firms, often fail to deliver. Led by a team of Experienced Staffing-Industry Executives, HireStrategy developed a solution that combines the reach of the Internet with the human touch of the traditional recruiting firm. The HireGuide®, HireStrategy's proprietary technology, is an eCRM tool that quickly connects candidates to the recruiter and manages the hiring process. Industry-Specific Delivery Teams of account managers and recruiters identify the best possible candidates for our clients and close deals.
EFuturia, Inc.
EFuturia is developing TIMBR—Tools for Intelligent Management of Business Rules—a business-software development product suite for building and managing software applications, using next generation technology called business rules. Business rules technology, like database technology, is a core development technology for creating programs. TIMBR equips companies to respond to competition in Web-time.
System Excelerator, Inc.
System Excelerator, Inc. (SEI), is focused on Intelligent Management Systems, unique wireless data acquisition systems that capture operational information from virtually any type of equipment or structural system, process the data for real-time status reporting, predict future system failures, and wirelessly communicate (via RF, Satellite and Cellular) information and alerts to customer-defined remote location(s) for management action.
October 25, 2000 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
Aquifer Software, Inc.
Aquifer Software, Inc. develops and markets proprietary software products for Application Service Providers ("ASPs") and allows ASPs to get to market fast with truly web architected applications. Using Aquifer's products, ASPs can develop their software from the ground up for Internet delivery and deployment; allowing them to manage, maintain, and get paid for customer use of their applications.
Network Mantra
Network Mantra: With the network becoming a commodity, competition has moved to the network service provider's (NSP) back office. Network Mantra's goal was to find a product that rapidly and intelligently configured network elements (routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, RAS, etc.) while maintaining a database of these configurations. To fulfill the goal, Network Mantra has introduced a product, netCM, for NSP's that need to rapidly provision several hundred Points-of-Presence (POP's) and manage thousands of pieces of network devices.
planetWE
planetWE: Every business needs services such as payroll, insurance, information systems, and telecommunications to support daily operations. Small businesses typically do not have purchasing departments. The opportunity cost of key managers spending time on these necessary, but non revenue-generating activities is enormous. planetWE solves this problem and provides comprehensive service management by being the: Information hub that enables business owners to make educated choices; Trusted resource for identifying quality providers and services at fair price; One-stop shop for business services; Service manager providing personalized account management and local support.
RoxtelT Corporation
RoxtelT Corporation (Roxtel) is the premier B2B ASP of quality and business management products in the global arena to assist suppliers in the telecom industry in transitioning their business operations to a TL9000 compliant operation. Roxtel's products, known as TLRoxT and TLMetrixT, provide a core technology that addresses critical needs in the marketplace by assisting the supplier base with transitioning to TL9000. Both are scalable, cost-effective products with one focusing on gap analysis, and the other assisting with mandated metric collection and reporting.
Vital Contact, Inc.
VitalContact develops agent software that enables enterprises to manage a broad range of business processes and tasks without user intervention. Our cornerstone product, the Enterprise Agent Server, is a new class of Java software that uses Business Process Agents (BPAs) to autonomously complete complex tasks within and among enterprise applications, across diverse data sources, and among multiple users in accordance with pre-defined business processes.
July 20, 2000 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
Airak, Inc.
Airak, Inc develops, manufactures, markets, and services optical sensors and their support systems for market segments that require their unique advantages. The use of patent-pending technologies, combined with wireless communication and network configurations, enable Airak to address the needs of diverse markets and to solve problems such as the requirement for ongoing and labor intensive monitoring and maintenance in the field.
Sesla, Inc.
Sesla technology brings the international market to the e-commerce vendor by providing a total solution for international shipping. Sesla's solution simplifies fulfillment and reduces costs. Sesla's GlobalGateway enables e-commerce vendors to offer their clients a total cost including transportation, customs and duties.
iCapture Corporation
iCapture Corporation is an application service provider that integrates electronic messaging and customer relationship management technology with the creative marketing focus of an interactive advertising agency. iCapture's proprietary flagship product, the iCapture DataPac® (patent pending), delivers personalized information to a customer's contacts through email links and is positioned as a premium, integrated e-marketing solution for professional associations, service providers and midmarket companies.
WasteBid.com, Inc.
WasteBid.com, Inc. is the first "smart engine", full-service, transaction-based-intermediary serving the $50 billion non-hazardous solid waste and recycling industry in the U.S. Through the application of proprietary (patent applied for) web-enabled technology and the founders' extensive experience and reputation in the industry, WasteBid.com enables its customers (property owners and managers and waste haulers and recyclers) to transact business more efficiently.
Communicast
Communicast webconferencing helps companies dramatically reduce the time and cost of a vital business function: group communication and collaboration. Companies use Communicast for enterprise-wide applications including sales, corporate communication, support, recruiting, product training, team updates, coaching, product development, and skill development, for employees, channel partners, resellers, shareholders, and customers.
April 12, 2000 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
eStoreUSA
eStoreUSA is a leading e-commerce player in the Small Businesses HELP (high-end, low price) space. As an innovative TESP (technology-enabled service provider), the company is strongly differentiated by its proprietary technology, customer-focused approach and "no assembly required" offering. At prices comparable to the clutter of do-it-yourself e-commerce solutions (e.g. Yahoo, Verio), eStoreUSA offers its customers a full-service way to sell products and services online and to realize the other benefits of e-commerce (expanding geographic reach, improving customer service, managing demand spikes and improving A/R management).
GovOnline
According to the Industry Standard (March/April), e-government just might be the biggest e-commerce opportunity of all. GovOnline's business model is to partner with municipalities to offer services such as online payment of parking tickets, permits and licenses, online government procurement, and localized content for auctions, chat and community activities. GovOnline will offer these services for free to the local governments and will derive the majority of its revenues as "convenience fees" from residents and businesses that use the site to conduct electronic transactions.
RehabMAX.com, Inc.
RehabMAX.com, Inc. ("RehabMAX", the "Company") will use the Internet to deliver quality continuing education courses, comprehensive professional information, medical supplies, books and customized web pages to physical therapists, athletic trainers, occupational therapists and their assistants (collectively "rehabilitation professionals").The Company will create the first comprehensive online business-to-business resource for rehabilitation professionals, allowing RehabMAX.com to become the most respected and definitive source of online rehabilitation information.
TenderSys.com
TenderSys will be the first web-based Information System to support and facilitate over $200 billion/yr worth of global procurement (tenders) of goods and services with proprietary online information. The service will include information on current, past, and upcoming RFP's and tenders, and assistance in participating in them. In this marketplace, the key buyers are large private companies, international development agencies, and governments; the key suppliers are manufacturers and traders all around the world. The revenues will come from subscriptions, consulting, advertisements, and transaction fee on successful tenders.
VirPack.com
VirPack.com has developed software and related services that allow electronic delivery of data and documents together in a user- friendly package. VirPack will change the business processes of many industries. The basic idea of a VirPack is: an Internet workflow envelope that can replace the need for overnight shipping, reduce supply cost and labor, and greatly improve delivery time and efficiency.
January 27, 2000 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
AllSoldOut.com
AllSoldOut is focusing on TurboQ, a revolutionary internet infrastructure software product that extends the limits of databases to handle more transactions and to prioritize those transactions. TurboQ is the solution that is less expensive and more robust than buying additional database licenses or server hardware. TurboQ also gives customers better service. TurboQ is sold as software that is installed on a customer's server. TurboQ-on-Demand is sold as a service that is rented on a recurring monthly basis.
Minerva Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Minerva Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (MPI), formed in early 1999, has an exclusive license to unique technology for the early detection and treatment of cancer. This technology offers a completely new mode of cancer diagnosis and therapy uniquely associated with the "malignant" state. It can provide information crucial to the early diagnosis of cancer and to the guiding of development of drugs capable of blocking this disease.
SeniorPath.com
SeniorPath.com is an exciting new Internet-based destination site providing comprehensive information, services and interaction for Seniors (50+), their families and caregivers. SeniorPath.com will offer compelling, objective and relevant lifestyle articles and information that will be developed internally and leveraged through strategic alliances with major content providers, including on and off-line healthcare companies, major news organizations, Senior advocacy, and Senior not-for-profit groups. SeniorPath.com will provide useful tools and utilities, such as drug interaction programs, health insurance FAQ's, housing service info, electronic mail, discussion groups, and links to Senior resources.
TeraStore, Inc.
TeraStore, Inc. is developing its next-generation magnetic storage technology to build a general-purpose mass storage device, the TeraStore Memory Device (the "TMD"). The TMD will be a solid-state unit with no moving parts, approximately the size of a C battery. It will be introduced with over 8 GB of non-volatile magnetic memory, with access performance up to 100 times faster time than current high end hard drive. The TMD will be low power, removable, portable, and environmentally rugged. It will be introduced as a compatible replacement for the HD in the operation of a typical PC, since it is neither architecturally nor manufacturer dependent. TeraStore's technology can sustain the pace of data storage density increases well into the century by approaching data storage based on quantum mechanical technology.
ValueSpeed, Inc.
ValueSpeed, Inc. is developing the Shopping Wizard, a small, downloadable browser add-on, that will provide a complete set of shopping tools, from price comparison through forms completion and order tracking. No other shopping assistant provides ValueSpeed's choice among comparison shopping robots, complete range of functionality, privacy of consumer data, and separate versions tailored to the needs of shoppers and Web businesses.
October 21, 1999 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters
artisanNet.Com, Inc.
artisanNet.com's core business is to be an e-commerce enabler by creating a unique online distribution channel between a nationwide network of individual artists, artisans, and galleries and the exploding number of Internet consumers. Our focus is functional art and fine crafts with a community orientation and an inclusive approach.
Bond International
Bond International is an E-Business Application Service Provider (ASP). We deliver software and services to businesses over the Internet on a rental and transaction fee basis. Our e-business suite, Xpediter, provides Supply Chain, Web-Customer Service, and eCommerce capabilities to mid-size manufacturing and distribution companies. IBM has selected Xpediter as its mid-market e-business offering and has signed a co-marketing contract with Bond. Bond provides superior performance, security, and reliability over in-house applications without a significant up-front financial commitment.
Collective Communications Corporation
Collective Communications Corporation's (CCC) mission is to develop great software products that simplify people's access to information resources by providing them with the freedom to choose how, when and where they compute. Mobile professionals access needed information (inventory levels, customer account information, etc.) by calling their assistants to access the information or by carrying outdated printouts or stale copies of inventory and account information on their laptops. CCC is developing the first of many software solutions, named ePDA, built to solve the mobile worker's dilemma. ePDA allows companies to maintain systems providing information exchange between salespeople and corporate databases, in true real-time.
Digital interWorks
Digital interWorks combines proprietary software, databases and web-sites to create platforms for online recruiting for under-served, specialized markets. The Company's products and services cater to the unique needs of each market, facilitating the recruiting process for both employers and job seekers, and represent a significant opportunity for advertisers targeting these market segments. DI-USA's proprietary resume-preparation software programs, Transition Assistance Software and First-Step, and existing sites, TAOnline.com and EmployU.com, serve the military and college markets, respectively, aiding job seekers in these segments to create an effective resume and post it on the appropriate site.
July 22, 1999 Century Club Grubstake Breakfast Program® Presenters Audiopoint
Audiopoint is a new media company that will aggregate and deliver audio-based entertainment, news and information, and chat to subscribers over the telephone. An interactive service, Audiopoint will employ the latest interactive voice response (IVR), advanced speech recognition, and speech synthesis technologies to allow subscribers to enjoy an audio-based "Web surfing" experience over their telephone.
Imagination Software, Inc.
Imagination Software, Inc. (Silver Spring, MD) is a pioneering software developer focused on capturing and transforming business documents into "electronic paper" for corporate networks, intranets, and the web. Virtual Copier® is the first application that interconnects devices such as digital copiers, scanners, printers, and fax machines within one enterprise-wide family and into business applications, including Microsoft Office and Exchange, Lotus Notes, and document management applications.
justsell.com
justsell.com is a vertical Internet portal for information, products and services related to sales and marketing. It provides a one-stop shop and resource for virtually any sales and marketing challenge while delivering free tools, resources, content and community activities specific to the sales and marketing function. justsell.com has three existing revenue streams: business services, advertising, and product sales.
Sideout Technologies
Sideout Technologies develops Internet e-commerce systems that automate business processes with customers, partners, and employees. Sideout will complete the first phase in the development of its product, working name StrawDog, in July 1999. StrawDog is an Internet application that automates a company's process of reimbursing their dealers for claims like warranty repairs, marketing programs, and billing errors.
SighTech
SighTech is created to commercialize in the USA a new technology for vision correction without the use of corrective lenses or surgery. The product has been fully developed and successfully demonstrated in Russia. This technology, developed through collaboration between specialists in neurophysiology and ophthalmology, is based on auto-training with a biofeedback signal. The procedure has applicability to a number of sight disorders, including myopia (nearsightedness), hyperopia (farsightedness), amblyopia ("lazy eye") and strabismus (crossed eyes). This technology has demonstrated up to 90% success with no contraindications.
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DWSoft Corporation is a two year old company focusing on Data Warehousing, Internet and Intranet markets. They have been working closely with Microsoft to support Microsoft's data warehousing initiatives. Their work has been focused on the use of Microsoft repository, one of the three components of the Microsoft Data Warehousing Framework. Their initial product line (DWGuide) delivers information about the warehouse to business users via a web browser interface, and can also provide links to other intranet/internet locations.
Image Café
Image Café is the World's first online Superstore stocked with thousands of customizable Websites to go. Understanding that small business owners want professionally- designed websites at "do-it-yourself" prices, the Image Café Website Superstore leverages economies of scale to go head-to-head with professional website design firms by offering business owners an affordable alternative.
Magideas Corporation
Magideas Corporation Magideas' vision is to be the premiere provider of network based distance education software and services. Magideas' ClassWise® is a creative, easy to use and affordable distance education software suite with the lowest network bandwidth requirement available in multimedia systems that go beyond web pages to support human presenters. The product supports both synchronous and asynchronous applications, meeting customer needs in education, training, conferencing, and sales.
NetCalendar, LLC
NetCalendar's product The Daily Drill (www.dailydrill.com), is a Web-based calendar that combines date specific information about public events with private appointments input by users and Calendar Connections-user groups united by a particular interest. NetCalendar trades the use of this for permission to collect highly granular, anonymous demographic data. Such data is increasingly valuable as trends toward performance-based advertising, one-to-one marketing and relationship sales continue while costs of untargeted sales climb.
Thread Technology, Inc.
Thread Technology, Inc. is an early stage company with a latter stage technology. Its mission is simple: Develop, patent, promote and license fast-acting screw thread designs ("ZipNut Technology"), and to design, manufacture and sell fasteners, couplings, connections and tools using ZipNut Technology.
